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The Anthropology of the Fetus
Biology, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology....
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual...
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Although “entanglement” has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a comparative...
The Southeast Asia Connection
Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed...
Terror From the Sky
The Bombing of German Cities in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issues...
Out of Albania
From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe’s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants’ employment, housing and social exclusion in Italy, as well as the process of return...
Parallel Lives Revisited
Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Originally coined in 2001 in a report on racial tensions in the United Kingdom, the concept of “parallel lives” has become familiar in the European discourse on immigrant integration. There, it refers to what is perceived as the segregation of immigrant populations from the rest of society. However,...
America Observed
On an International Anthropology of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here...
Funerals in Africa
Explorations of a Social Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness...
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War
Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
From its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as having contributed to the end of the Cold War. Bringing together new and innovative research on the CSCE, this volume explores questions key to understanding the Cold...
Against Exoticism
Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and...
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?
Bringing together different anthropological...
Grace after Genocide
Cambodians in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians. The ethnography contrasts the lives of refugees who arrived...